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Why do you believe in God?
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RE: Why do you believe in God?
(May 3, 2015 at 9:16 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(May 3, 2015 at 4:41 pm)Lek Wrote: The people that occupied these lands were very ugly.  Did they bear any responsibility for their demise?

That explanation is itself so ugly...There's no reason to believe Canaanites were any better or worse than anyone around them.  They worshiped gods other than Yahweh...appear[ing] to have been guilty of not being Hebrew and farming land god promised to the Hebrews.

I generally agree with this assessment. In fact, the other Canaanites may not have even suffered a total demise, as the biblical passages describing Hebrew/Canaanite conflict are heady war propaganda broadsheets giving us the Hebrew take on the matter. The other Canaanites presumably held a reciprocal opinion of Hebrews, but they were still pre-literate so we don't have a record of their thinking, at least until the Phonecians of Byblos, etc.
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Why do you believe in God? - by ObliviousCat - April 25, 2015 at 11:53 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 27, 2015 at 12:42 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Alex K - April 27, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 27, 2015 at 1:04 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Alex K - April 27, 2015 at 2:16 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Nope - April 30, 2015 at 8:31 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Aoi Magi - April 27, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 27, 2015 at 3:16 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Alex K - April 27, 2015 at 3:28 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 27, 2015 at 3:40 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Alex K - April 27, 2015 at 3:41 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - April 30, 2015 at 1:54 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Chas - May 1, 2015 at 6:55 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Jenny A - April 30, 2015 at 10:17 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Thumpalumpacus - April 30, 2015 at 5:30 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by vorlon13 - April 27, 2015 at 1:01 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Iroscato - April 27, 2015 at 2:36 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Longhorn - April 27, 2015 at 2:39 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - April 27, 2015 at 4:14 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - April 30, 2015 at 8:34 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - April 30, 2015 at 3:34 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - April 30, 2015 at 3:49 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 30, 2015 at 4:05 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - April 30, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - April 30, 2015 at 7:36 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - April 30, 2015 at 10:02 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 1, 2015 at 11:53 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by FatAndFaithless - May 1, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Chas - May 1, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 1, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by FatAndFaithless - May 1, 2015 at 12:21 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Chas - May 1, 2015 at 12:59 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 10:25 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - May 1, 2015 at 1:25 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 7:51 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - May 2, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 10:59 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - May 2, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 11:11 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - May 3, 2015 at 11:51 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 3, 2015 at 1:06 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Jenny A - May 2, 2015 at 11:38 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 3, 2015 at 4:41 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Jenny A - May 3, 2015 at 9:16 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Hatshepsut - May 4, 2015 at 11:32 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Minimalist - April 30, 2015 at 7:27 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Jenny A - April 30, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - April 30, 2015 at 3:59 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - April 30, 2015 at 5:24 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Pyrrho - May 1, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by professor - April 30, 2015 at 7:07 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Nope - May 1, 2015 at 7:16 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Polaris - April 30, 2015 at 10:19 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - May 1, 2015 at 12:19 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - May 2, 2015 at 10:19 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - May 2, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Lek - May 2, 2015 at 1:30 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Jenny A - May 2, 2015 at 4:23 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Hatshepsut - May 2, 2015 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by dylandboyer - May 3, 2015 at 1:08 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by robvalue - May 3, 2015 at 4:51 am
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Edwardo Piet - May 3, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Why do you believe in God? - by Hatshepsut - May 3, 2015 at 8:37 pm

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